6/10/2009 @ 10:00AM

In Pictures: The Best And Worst Cities For Recession Recovery

To find the 10 cities poised for recovery, and the 10 cities with longest road to recovery, we used data on gross domestic product from Moody’s Economy.com, unemployment and employment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, home prices and affordability from the National Association of Homebuilders, and population data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Data are for Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Because, in general, healthy cities were not victims of as severe a housing collapse, home prices were not used in ranking the cities poised for recovery.